Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania

[Edward Wanjala]

Safi kabisa hiyo

 

[3rd man]

hehehe mr giza construction bado kuanza

 

[kilam]

hehehe mr giza construction bado kuanza

Sasa wewe unataka waanze kutandika reli moja kwa moja? Jifunze hatua za ujenzi.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Sasa wewe unataka waanze kutandika reli moja kwa moja? Jifunze hatua za ujenzi.

Hili fala 3rd man ni jinga sana sasa sijui hajaelewa nn? ameambiwa construction camps are ready!

 

[1academ]

railroad engineers wetu lineup ya kike ikongozwa na eng Concilia gikariana Eng Alice koki bila kumsahau train driver wetu mkali wa hizi kazi train driver Noela swabin. Keep slaying girls we so proud of you

 

[3rd man]

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Shida hizo kofia za north korea

 

[Kafrican]

Reli ya kitambo(meter guage) Nairobi commuter rail yapitia stetion mpya ya SGR

 

[Kafrican]

Oh my!

Meter guage rail hapo kando ikisafirisha mizigo

favourite

 

[Kafrican]

Jana usiku

 

[Hossam]

Sisi Bombadia tu ndio dawa yenu dadeeki

 

[mwathadan]

 

[Perfectz]

Kuna mtu kaibiwa???!!!

 

[Geza Ulole]

railroad engineers wetu lineup ya kike ikongozwa na eng Concilia gikariana Eng Alice koki bila kumsahau train driver wetu mkali wa hizi kazi train driver Noela swabin. Keep slaying girls we so proud of you View attachment 516419

hawa watu wana mandonga makubwa cheki hili halafu pata picha ni mdada huyu no wonder North Korea cap fitted them

!

 

[BlietzKrieg]

WIVU

 

[Geza Ulole]

WIVU

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SGR is a great project, but let the thieves pay for their sins
Monday May 29 2017

Locomotives for the Standard Gauge Railway project are received at the Kenya Ports Authority container terminal in Mombasa on January 11, 2017. SGR will offer many the chance to travel in comfort at affordable rates while getting a feel of the beautiful countryside. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NATION MEDIA GROUP

In Summary

• If it works as advertised, it will become my preferred mode of transport to and from Mombasa.
• A viable project will attract honest investors, so there is no need to sidestep public procurement laws.

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By MACHARIA GAITHO
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We stand witness this week to one of the most momentous events in the history of transportation in Kenya, when President Uhuru Kenyatta officially launches the new Mombasa-Nairobi railway.

Only an utter cynic or perpetual naysayer would deny that the new network, popularly referred to as SGR (contraction of standard gauge railway), will be a game changer in the movement of people and goods from the Indian Ocean coastline to the hinterland, especially after the remaining phases to the Ugandan border are completed.

TRANSPORT
Despite all the misgivings about crooked procurement, inflated pricing, and possible diversion of billions of shillings from the public coffers into private pockets, I am still excited about this project.

It should be as important to the development of Kenya as the now dilapidated ‘Lunatic Express’, the Kenya-Uganda Railway, was a century-and-a-quarter ago.

If it works as advertised, it will become my preferred mode of transport to and from Mombasa.

AIRLINES AFFECTED

It will offer many the chance to travel in comfort at affordable rates while getting a feel of the beautiful countryside.

I certainly don’t feel sorry for the airline operators who charge us an arm and a leg for that short hop, who might now have to drastically reduce their fares or abandon the route altogether.

And I would say good riddance to the bus operators who also fleece us for the long, uncomfortable and dangerous journeys on that killer highway.

BRIBES
As for the truckers who destroy the roads with their overloaded trailers and make themselves a homicidal menace to other road users, it’s sayonara, au revoir, kwaheri, auf wiedersehen, hamba kahle, adios, vaarwel, zàijiàn!

The long distance buses and trucks will be missed only by traffic police and fellow parasites who make illicit fortunes from the private toll stations in the name of roadblocks, speed traps and weigh bridges.

I must emphasise that welcoming the railway does not amount to a turning a blind eye to the official chicanery and corruption that blighted a very worthy project and made us all the poorer.

JUBILEE MANIFESTO
Neither is it an endorsement of the ignoble politics that cleverly timed the official opening to coincide with the launch of the official campaign period for the 2017 General Election.

I understand that President Uhuru Kenyatta is on the hunt for votes, and will happily clutch onto anything that will showcase the achievements of his first term.

His strategists long ago identified the railway as one of the flagship projects to illustrate delivery of the Jubilee manifesto.

They pushed hard to make sure it was completed in time to make a campaign statement; even if that meant riding roughshod over procurement laws, paying scant attention to value for money, and creating room for rent seekers to make a killing.

POLITICAL MILEAGE
Making political capital out of development projects, I can live with.

Any politician would do the same. Even President Kenyatta’s main opponent in the presidential election, National Super Alliance candidate Raila Odinga, would behave exactly the same in a similar situation.

Instead of threatening to scrap or review Jubilee projects if elected, Mr Odinga might prefer the wiser option of moving to take credit for the very same railways, roads, power stations and other big infrastructure projects the Kenyatta campaign is capitalising on.

CORRUPTION
Threats to uproot railway lines and tear up tarmac roads would be foolish, but Mr Odinga could justifiably claim that he helped initiate most of these projects during the period he served as the Prime Minister, sharing power with President Mwai Kibaki, under the 2008-2013 grand coalition government.

I’m not interested in the politics of development projects, but I would still insist that those implicated in grand larceny must eventually be dealt with, and forced to refund stolen public money as they head to jail.

NEXT SGR PHASE
Impunity must never be rewarded. That’s why it is alarming that the government is already shopping around for financiers and contractors for the next phase of SGR, again under very opaque terms.

A viable project will attract honest investors, so there is no need to sidestep public procurement laws unless the intention is to steal our money.

Meanwhile, asking for a friend: Could the Kenya Railways bosses tell us why the SGR hostesses are draped in colours of the Ugandan flag?

Email: gaithomail@gmail.com Twitter: @MachariaGaitho



GAITHO: SGR is a great project, but let the thieves pay for

 

[1academ]

ohhooooo

 

[1academ]

 

[Mangungo II]

They think a house is build from the roof to the foundation! Very funny guys, they used to say the locomotives were second hand, now it is dawning on them that this things are new and straight from the sufuria!!

Another truth will dawn on them in the coming 6 years when they start buying theirs!! I wonder where will Kenya be in six years?? 1000MW Lamu Power will be up and running, several resort cities up and running

These resort cities are the ones to be connected with high speed trains.

Imagine!! Why should you have a high speed train from Dar is Slum to Morogoro mashambani??? Does it even make sense??

Unakimbia nini toka shambani kwenda slum and toka slum kwenda shambani???

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Kisha una bullet train

Ukienda Morogoro
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Surely Tanzanians must be a crazy lot

Hehehehe uu masti bi krezi olso, fo wati rizoni u havi seidi morogoro ni mashambani hahahahahah pua yu ngany'au.

Kuja morogoro uone jinsi msi unavyokua kwa kasi ya ajabu moro kuna plantations viwanda kibao ,na ni katikati ya nchi kwa hiyo ni sahihi kabisa kujenga sgr mpka moro ina facilitate easy transportation of goods,services and the people from tz fast grown city in africa to interior.

Guys kenyatas acheni kujitamba na hivyo vi GDP vya kwenye karatasi the are nothing soon or leta vitageuka.

I hope kenyans mpo matumbo joto na the fast growth Tz yeeees here we come the East Africa big brother.
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Nyang'aus their trembling knees mi ght break hahaahahah


Tz baby anyway We have a lot of arable land suitable for agricultural activities what about u nasikia mna njaa ya unga na sukari kujeni tuwakopeshe msosi wasee maana what the profit of SGR ikiwa wakenya mnakufa njaa ardhi yote anamiliki kenyatta na washkaji zake

Nyang'au bhana

 

[Mangungo II]

Atleast ours has linked two major towns

Hahahah we have many major towns here are they.

Dar
Morogoro
Tanga
Mtwara
Mbeya
Mwanza
Arusha
Kigoma
Dodoma
Iringa

So its just an option whicha to choose msee!!

Nasikia kenya ni nairobi tu eti na mombasa ni nchi huru

 

[Mangungo II]

Hallelujah !View attachment 511051

Huyu Wa pili ni ndugu kafrican